YMDT 122 Church Fathers & Life of Christ............................................ 8 Explores works such as the Apostolic Fathers, selections from Clement of Alexandria, Athanasius, Creeds of the Church, Augustine’s On Christian Teaching, Confessions and City of God. Delves into the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and the Acts of the Apostles. Concurrent with 125. Spring, freshman year. YMDT 125 Greco–Roman Thought......................................................... 4 Examines works such as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Euripedes’ Bacchae, Virgil’s Aeneid, Tacitus’ Annals of Imperial Rome, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Marcus Aurelius’ Medita- tions. Concurrent with 122. Spring, freshman year. YMDT 201 The City & Man . ....................................................................... 8 Explores works dealing with human social order and political thought. Selections include readings such as Augustine’s City of God, Machiavelli’s Prince, Hobbes’ Leviathan, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Burke, Lincoln, Nietzsche, the U.S. Constitution, the book of Luke and Acts. Fall, sophomore year. YMDT 202 On Knowing God .................................................................... 8 Examines the development of classical Christian doctrine. Includes readings such as the letters of Paul, the gospel of John, works by Irenaeus, Athanasius, Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin and John Bunyan. Spring, sopho- more year. YMDT 214 Medieval & Reformation Thought..................................... 8 Considers writings such as The Divine Comedy, Canterbury Tales, Erasmus’ Praise and Folly, Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Creeds of the Church. Fall, sophomore year.
seau, Hume, Newman, Dewey, C.S. Lewis and the books I and II Samuel, 1 and II Kings and Isaiah. Fall, junior year.
YMDT 302 On The Cosmos . ...................................................................... 8 Selections for discussion include authors such as Aristotle, Bacon, Newton, Darwin, Wordsworth, Emerson. Books of the Bible focusing on prophets and apostles are also included in this study of cosmology, the natural world and the human place in it. Spring, junior year. YMDT 310 Revivalism & Romanticism................................................... 4 Includes works such as I and II Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, selections fromWilliam Blake, Samuel Coleridge, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards and Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphys- ics of Morals. Fall, junior year. YMDT 325 Nineteenth Century Thought.............................................. 4 Includes works such as Isaiah and Jeremiah, Goethe’s Faust, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities, Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Spring, junior year. YMDT 401 On History & Rhetoric . .......................................................... 8 Selected readings on history, apologetics and holiness. Authors such as Thucydides, Eusebius, Hegel, Aristotle, Quintil- ian, Cicero, Justin Martyr, Augustine, Seneca and Wesley are included. Fall, senior year. YMDT 402 The Future ................................................................................. 4 Examines works on eschatology and judgment such as Daniel, Revelation, Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and selections from Flannery O’Connor, T.S. Eliot and G.K. Chesterton. Mandatory if student’s major does not have integration requirement. Spring, senior year. YMDT 410 America....................................................................................... 4 Includes readings such as the Non-Pauline epistles, selections from Emerson, Melville, Burke, James, O’Connor, Douglass and Lincoln. Fall, senior year. YMDT 465 Twentieth Century Thought................................................ 4 Examines works such as Daniel, Revelation, C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man, Newman’s The Idea of a University, Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, and selections from T.S. Eliot and G.K. Chesterton. Mandatory if the student’s major does not have an Integration requirement. Spring, senior year. YMDT 480 Torrey Honors Thesis.............................................................. 4 The last term of the senior year will be devoted to writing a tutor-supervised thesis of not less than 12,000 words. These required four credits are counted toward the total number needed for graduation from Torrey and Biola University. The
YMDT 217 Pauline Epistles......................................................................... 4 Explores each of the Pauline Epistles. Fall, sophomore year.
YMDT 220 Early Modern Thought........................................................... 8 Examines works such as selections from Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Pascal, Descartes, Locke’s Essay Con- cerning Human Understanding and Second Treatise on Gov- ernment, Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hobbes’ Leviathan, Federalist Papers and the U.S. Constitution. Spring, sophomore year.
YMDT 226 Wisdom Literature................................................................... 4 Explores Job through Ecclesiastes. Spring, sophomore year.
YMDT 301 On Learning & Knowledge .................................................. 8 Readings focus on epistemology, education and a survey of the biblical history of Israel. Explores works by authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Pascal, Locke, Kant, Rous-
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